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On the recordApril 26, 2013
Thank you for that worthy tribute. Well, I want to reference a part of a Special Order address that was delivered here on this floor February 16, 2012, by me, and in that I had before me a transcript of a hearing where the FBI Director testified, and I pointed out--well, I just read the transcript, as I will do now, part of it. I pointed out before reading that I don't have a problem with the FBI having an outreach program to communities, but I said: Why would the FBI see the need to make positive outreach into any community of a specific nature? So after Director Mueller had indicated, yes, we have this wonderful outreach program with the Muslim communities, and those communities are exactly like every other community, I said: You had mentioned earlier and it's in your written statement that the FBI developed an extensive outreach to Muslim communities, and in answer to an earlier question I understood you to say that Muslim communities were like all other communities. {time} 1410 So I'm curious. As a result of the extensive outreach program the FBI has had to the Muslim community, how has your outreach program gone with the Baptists and the Catholics? Director Mueller said: I'm not certain of necessarily the thrust of that question. I would say that our outreach to all segments of a particular city or country or society are good.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas

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